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For over a year, Madagascar has been hard-hit by a crippling drought, related to one of the most powerful El Niño phenomena on record. The drought has hit the already arid region of Grand Sud hardest. Home to 1.8 million people, infant mortality in Grand Sud is now 47 per cent higher here than the...

Fighting in Juba, South Sudan’s capital, from 7 to 11 July left hundreds of people dead or injured and tens of thousands displaced, mostly women and children. Humanitarian partners estimate that more than 36,000 people were displaced at the height of the fighting and had sought shelter in various...

Winding up a nine-day visit to the UK, Malawi and Madagascar, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Kyung-wha Kang called for urgent action by governments and donors to assist millions of people affected by severe drought in the southern Africa region.
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The United Nations and partners launch the 2016 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), aimed to respond to the humanitarian needs of up to 4.6 million people in 2016. Speficially, the HRP targets 4.6 million people of the 5.8 million people in need in Sudan. This decrease of 800,000 people targeted compared to...